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Statistics, Data, and Probability II Drill 4 Problem 1. Which of the following scatter plots represents a negative correlation between the data sets?

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Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability 7 / Scatterplots

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Which of the following scatter plots represent a negative correlation between the data sets?
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And here are the potential answers...
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Whoa. Negative corre-what?
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Ok, five dollar word alert. A correlation occurs when something is similar to something else.

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Like… there’s a correlation between the TV viewing audience of Honey Boo Boo…
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…and the number of antidepressants sold daily in the US.
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So when a correlation is NEGATIVE it’s basically just saying that they’re NOT like each other.
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In plot A, we can see that as engine size increases…
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…horsepower also increases… so the two are POSITIVELY correlated with one another.
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B is just the opposite… and THAT’s the one we’re looking for.
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As golfing experience increases, golf scores go down.
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So our answer is B.
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As in, “Bogey.”
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